Full name: John Marshall: Definer of a Nation

Author: Jean Edward Smith Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780805055108 080505510X

A New York Times Notable Book of 1996It was in tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to ring again. An apt symbol of the man who shaped both court and country.Working from primary sources, Jean Edward Smith has drawn an elegant portrait of a remarkable man. Lawyer, jurist, scholars; soldier, comrade, friend; and, most especially, lover of fine Madeira, good food, and animated table talk: the Marshall who emerges from these pages is noteworthy for his very human qualities as for his piercing intellect, and, perhaps most extraordinary, for his talents as a leader of men and a molder of consensus. A man of many parts, a true son of the Enlightenment, John Marshall did much for his country, and John Marshall: Definer of a Nation demonstrates this on every page. Similar books: Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith Bush by Jean Edward Smith Louis D. Brandeis by Melvin I. Urofsky Hugo Black by Roger K. Newman Daniel Webster by Robert V. Remini Chief Justice by Ed Cray Justice Brennan by Seth Stern Honorable Justice by Sheldon M. Novick Becoming Justice Blackmun by Linda Greenhouse Acheson by James Chace Henry Clay by Robert V. Remini Justice for All by Jim Newton Lone Star Rising by Robert Dallek James Madison by Ralph Ketcham John Paul Jones by Evan Thomas Henry Clay by David S. Heidler Clarence Darrow by John A. Farrell The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester